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Five things about Google+ Facebook should worry about

Five things about Google+ Facebook should worry about

For a company that has had trouble understanding social, the response to Google+, the company's new social network platform, has...

Skype to release iPad app soon

Skype to release iPad app soon

Skype has become a popular app for the iPhone, bringing video calling to millions of mobile users. Now the service...

Facebook’s IPO will be the worst investment in tech history

Facebook’s IPO will be the worst investment in tech history

The social network has its fingers in a majority of websites in one way or another. Businesses promote their Facebook...

Google tests new interface, no longer “feeling lucky”

Google tests new interface, no longer “feeling lucky”

It's hard to say goodbye to things that have been with us for so long, but it appears we may...

Facebook iPad app prepares for launch

Facebook iPad app prepares for launch

The iPhone app was available the moment that the Apple App Store opened nearly 3 years ago. Their efforts for...

Social media used to identify Vancouver riot suspects

Social media used to identify Vancouver riot suspects

After the Stanley Cup loss which lead to riots last night in Vancouver, outraged Canadians have taken their fight for...

Google introduces host of search improvements

Google introduces host of search improvements

Advances in mobile search are now leading to changes in desktop search. On a mobile phone, users can search using...

17 tips to tame Google’s immense wealth of data

17 tips to tame Google’s immense wealth of data

Google has never really had a problem with getting or presenting data. They have so much information stored in rows...

Apple’s iCloud takes on cloud services from Microsoft, Google

Apple’s iCloud takes on cloud services from Microsoft, Google

At the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, Apple introduced iCloud, a set of free new cloud services...

Steve Jobs details plan for the Apple spaceship building in Cupertino

Steve Jobs details plan for the Apple spaceship building in Cupertino

If you're Apple with a goal of 12,000 employees under one roof, what better place to put them than in...

Windows 8 user interface

Windows 8 user interface

After reading some of the thoughts and speculations about Windows 8 over the past few days, it's possible that Microsoft...

Twitter hops into bed with iOS 5 for some ‘deep integration’

Twitter hops into bed with iOS 5 for some ‘deep integration’

Monday is going to be an interesting day, to say the least. Rumours surrounding WWDC '11 concern all sorts of...

Twitter officially acquires TweetDeck

Twitter officially acquires TweetDeck

TweetDeck, a groundbreaking dashboard for monitoring what people are saying in real-time, has officially been acquired by Twitter. After months...

Google abandons newspaper scanning project

Google abandons newspaper scanning project

Google has announced that it will shut down its News Archives project, an initiative aimed at digitizing the world’s newspapers...

Report: new MacBook Airs will arrive in June

Report: new MacBook Airs will arrive in June

According to reports, Apple’s new MacBook Air is slated to be launched in June or July. In typical Apple fashion,...

iPhone 5 dropping on November 21st?

iPhone 5 dropping on November 21st?

According to British gadget mag T3,  the iPhone 5 (or 4S, depending on which rumours you're believing) could be on...

New memoir paints less than positive portrait of Bill Gates

New memoir paints less than positive portrait of Bill Gates

Although he’s not quite the household name as Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is undeniably an incredibly influential technology...

Microsoft grabs Skype. Now what?

Microsoft grabs Skype. Now what?

Microsoft announced this morning that they are moving forward with plans to buy Skype for $8.5 billion in cash from...

Facebook fuels advertising growth with new social video ads

Facebook fuels advertising growth with new social video ads

Facebook’s latest attempt at monetization includes video ads that are embedded inside games. The ads can be closed, but users...

Apple: new iMacs with Thunderbolt, FaceTime HD, and more power

Apple: new iMacs with Thunderbolt, FaceTime HD, and more power

Apple, while keeping up with the times, has decided that it is time to unveil a new set of iMacs...